Drama out of nothing... perhaps (Regarding the War of the Ring)

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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Fact is, he didn't. Tolkien's story turned out the way it did because, all players being who they were, all events turning how they did (seemingly extremely lucky), it could not have happened any other way. Sure, it's fun to speculate.

Don't think that we're playing the 'what-if' game here. Maybe the point of the thread is that Eru has a plan, and even if Saint Frodo failed, there would have been another mechanism that would have brought light back into Middle Earth. And so the elves, having seen all of this before, may have left ME knowing that Sauron would be thrown down some day, but didn't want to hang around for all of the ensuing messiness.

Not that I think that Eru encourages peoples to sit and wait for their own deliverance. He works with beings fighting the good fight.